StartupPHL wants to fund your ideas for fighting poverty with open data

Open data will never solve poverty. But it can definitely help people who are working to reduce it.

Now in its fifth year, StartupPHL’s Call for Ideas grant program wants to help fund projects that do just that by using open data sets published by the City of Philadelphia.

.@StartupPHL's latest Call for Ideas is now live! This round focuses on open data & fighting poverty: https://t.co/5Y2vdyjobT #startup

— PHL Department of Commerce (@PHLCommerce) October 12, 2016

In the past, the Call for Ideas program has issued small grants to organizations like Coded by Kids and TechGirlz.

Applications for the program are due by Sunday, Nov. 13. Got questions about Call for Ideas? Hit up Archna Sahay, the city’s director of entrepreneurial investment.

Above all, it’s important to keep this in mind:

Amy Hillier: Must approach data w/ humility–data is inevitably imperfect. And ethics–data is about real people. #opendata #bigdata #PTW16

From our Partners

— Amy Laura Cahn 🔥 (@amylauracahn) May 5, 2016